Actively Radical TV -- Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News -- Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts every Monday at 8pm. Ph 9633 6976 to contact the producers or make a donation.
Island Style -- This program documents how four young Australian Pacific Islanders in Sydney are using the culture of hip hop to interpret their Polynesian traditions and make sense of their lives. SBS, Friday, June 4, 8.30pm.
Etosha: Africa's Untamed Wilderness -- Africa's Etosha is a vast and ancient land of seasonal paradox. It is an Eden of glorious abundance during the bloom of the wet season, but during the dry season heat, drought, dust and thirst put all life at risk. ABC-TV, Sunday, June 6, 7.30pm.
Unknown Images: The Vietnam War -- Previously unreleased and censored footage from the Vietnam War. With growing opposition to the war at home and ferocious resistance in Vietnam, troop morale is low. John Wayne, dying of cancer, is sent to Vietnam to lift the US soldiers' spirits. “Rest and recreation” is not without its dangers as an educational film points out: “Vietnam is a strange country with strange and lovely girls and some even stranger diseases”. The use of hard drugs reaches epidemic proportions as US troops realise the war is pointless. SBS, Tuesday, June 8, 8.30pm.
